RT Article
T1 The Sexual Grooming Scale – Victim Version: The Development and Pilot Testing of a Measure to Assess the Nature and Extent of Child Sexual Grooming
JF Victims & offenders
VO 17
IS 6
SP 919
OP 940
A1 Winters, Georgia M.
A2 Jeglic, Elizabeth L.
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1814881077
AB Sexual grooming has been deemed an integral component of child sexual abuse (CSA). However, the nature and extent of sexual grooming remains understudied in large part because an empirically-validated scale for child sexual grooming has yet to be developed. We developed the Sexual Grooming Scale – Victim Version (SGS-V) to assess the stages and behaviors described in the content-validated Sexual Grooming Model from a victim’s perspective. The SGS-V was pilot tested with 115 adult victims of CSA. Overall, results supported the feasibility in terms of implementation and its limited-efficacy. The implications for prevention, investigation, treatment, and research are discussed.
K1 Investigation
K1 Prevention
K1 Measurement
K1 Child Sexual Abuse
K1 Child sexual grooming
DO 10.1080/15564886.2021.1974994